Between heaven and earth, did the chicken come first or the egg?

The master of the man in white mentioned the matter of chickens laying eggs, and Lu Zheng naturally remembered this period of the past. In the primordial spirit, a thought flows, and there are three thousand pasts. This question was actually debated with Xin'er a long time ago when Lu Zheng was still in the Sun Moon Mansion. At that time, Lu Zheng had been living in Sun Moon Lu for half a year, not only freed from the sadness of losing his ninth brother, but also liked the calm and comfortable life in Sun Moon Lu. Although the teacher was strict, he had a lot to learn every day, and he was often so tired that he fell asleep, and he was often punished, and he became almost the closest friend with the teacher's precepts. But in fact, this qiē, even if it was beaten by the ring party, made Lu Zheng feel the most precious and cherished, not to mention that he still had the heart to accompany him. At that time, Lu Zheng hoped that such days would never end.

One day at dinner, the four of them finished dinner in Quzhi Pavilion as usual, and after putting down the chopsticks, Xin'er suddenly pointed to the empty plate on the table and asked Lu Zheng, "Little brother, where did you say this egg came from?"

What was on the empty plate was an egg that had been cut in half, and of course it had been eaten by Xin'er at this time, leaving only two empty eggshells. Lu Zheng was reminiscing about the taste of dinner, and he didn't react a little, so he replied as a matter of course: "Of course it's from the hen." ”

Unexpectedly, Xin'er asked, "What about the hen that lays eggs, and where does it come from?"

Lu Zheng continued to answer: "Of course, it hatched from the egg. ”

Xin'er was waiting for Lu Zheng's answer, a hint of cunning flashed in his eyes, and he clapped his hands and said with a smile: "Then little brother, did you say that there were hens or eggs first?"

"Of course, there was a ...... first" Lu Zheng opened his mouth to answer that there was a chicken first, but then he found that it was wrong. If the answer is chickens, but chickens hatch from eggs, and if they say eggs, then eggs are laid by chickens. This question is not as easy to answer as it seems!

Hey, one was careless, and he was tricked by his heart again.

Lu Zhengleng didn't figure out which one came first for a long time, and glanced at the teacher Li Yi who was sitting on the side. and his right hand leaned on the ground, looking at his Mr. Le with a smile, and he was very embarrassed. With the teacher Li Yi on the side, if you answer randomly, you will have to wait for the precept party. So he swallowed this sentence alive, and turned to the teacher Li Yi and asked, "Teacher, the student is puzzled by the problem in my heart, please teach me?"

Hearing Lu Zheng throw the question over, Li Yi didn't raise his eyelids. After taking a slow sip of the teacup, he directly blocked it back with a sentence of "no question, no answer". If a disciple asks a question in an inappropriate place, at an inappropriate time, or if the question is not in line with his current stage of study, if the question is asked in a remote way, or even if he asks a question with the wrong intentions, with the intention of reproaching or tempting, as a teacher, he can refuse to answer without any reason. That's what you can't ask or answer.

Is what Lu Zheng is asking now a question that is not a question? If you follow Li Yi's standards, you almost don't need to think about it, and this teacher emphasizes that everything you say and do is polite. He could well say. From the point of view of study, there is no point in knowing whether there is a chicken or an egg first, it is just a boring thought, and you should not ask random questions at this time, etc. In a word, Li Yi didn't care about this at all.

Li Yi is like this, and Le Zhongping on the side is not happy. He said: "Zhonggui, don't always be so straightforward, it's just a joke between children, isn't it good to play with children? I'm too tired to panic. Besides, I think this question is very interesting, it can be regarded as asking before all things!"

Mr. Le talked for a long time, but Li Yi only cared about drinking tea by herself, and didn't say a word. Mr. Le touched his nose, bored with himself, and turned to Lu Zhengchong's heart, and said, "Lu Zheng, take a look, you still don't know your teacher's temper, you ask him this kind of question, don't you want to find a precept to be beaten, but it's really stupid! Besides, the little bad girl stumped you with such a simple question, and you are too useless." ”

The heart on the side was immediately unhappy when he heard Mr. Le say this, and pouted: "Uncle Le, who do you say is the little bad girl?"

Mr. Le looked left and right for a while, and then looked at Xin'er with a surprised expression and said, "Hey, are there any other little girls here besides you, of course I'm talking about you!" ”

"Wow, Uncle Le, you deliberately bullied Xin'er!" Xin'er exclaimed angrily, "I'm afraid that Uncle Le won't be able to answer this question, so I deliberately said that Xin'er is a little bad girl! Hmph, I'm not a bad uncle!"

"You say I can't answer?" Le Zhongping couldn't help but point to his nose and laugh when he heard that he was called a bad uncle, and said disdainfully, "This kind of question, only you, a stupid little brother, can't answer it?"

Xin'er heard Le Zhongping say that Lu Zheng was stupid, of course he didn't agree, and said: "Bad uncle is not allowed to talk about little brother, or Xin'er will ignore you again! However, if the bad uncle can answer, Xin'er won't call you bad uncle." What if you can't answer...... Well, then you have to take me and my little brother to fly to the sky to catch clouds and play, bad uncle, do you dare?"

When Le Zhongping heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and then laughed and said: "The little girl is really cunning enough! I thought you were deliberately playing tricks on your stupid brother, but I didn't expect that you came for me in a big circle." So you deliberately want to stump me with this question, so as to force me to obey it! You think too beautifully, I won't be fooled!"

A few days ago in the evening, not long after the sun had set, a colorful light suddenly appeared in the sky, unpredictable, dreamlike, and unusually beautiful. Xin'er and Lu Zheng were fascinated by it, not to mention, it was a pity that they couldn't fly into the sky, if they could see it clearly, they would definitely be able to see more beautiful scenery. As soon as the two finished speaking, they heard someone behind them say, "What's so difficult about this?" Before the two of them had time to come back to their senses, they felt that the wind was blowing around them, and their feet were light, and they both rose into the air.

The two of them flew in the wind, very excited, and after going to the sky, they saw the sky overflowing, and the colorful light rendered the splendor of the sky, which was moving and beautiful. I don't know how many times better it looks better than appreciating it in the Sun and Moon House, so I naturally have a lot of fun and forget to return. It was the first time for the two to fly together, so after the colorful light disappeared, they were willing to go back immediately, and begged Mr. Le to let them enjoy the brilliant starlight in mid-air. I played until midnight before I came down.

But after the three of them landed, they saw Li Yi standing at the door of the Tianyuan Pavilion waiting for them, her face was dark, and her heart was chuckling. Not only Lu Zheng and Xin'er, but even Le Zhongping was so frightened that he didn't dare to come out. Li Yi had said to Le Zhongping a long time ago that it was strictly forbidden for him to abuse magical spells to play with the two children, and this time he just caught it. After Li Yi's gaze swept over their faces in turn, he snorted, and left without saying anything, neither reproaching. Nor punish. But none of the three dared to move, so they stood in place all night. From then on, Mr. Le never dared to fly with the two little ones to play. But Xin'er has always been obsessed with the beauty of the sky, and is always looking for an opportunity to let Le Zhongping fly into the sky like a butterfly.

Xin'er was pierced in her mind, her little face turned slightly red, and she said, "Uncle Le, do you care about Xin'er on purpose? Even if Xin'er intends to test you, you are still afraid that you will not be able to be tested by Xin'er. You still say it directly. Can you answer it?"

Le Zhongping said: "Little girl, this question is not something you came up with, eighty percent of it is your father or your mother who teases you and makes you guess." ”

Xin'er was surprised at this time, and blurted out: "Uncle Le, how do you know?" It turned out that this question was really teased by Xin'er's father Yunlan.

Le Zhongping smiled. I don't know if I was stimulated by Xin'er, or I wanted to play with Xin'er, so I didn't answer Xin'er directly, but asked Lu Zheng: "Lu Zheng, you should talk about it." Chicken or egg?"

Lu Zheng shook his head and said, "Mr. Le, I can't answer." ”

With a smile in his eyes, Le Zhongping asked, "Oh? Why can't you answer such a simple question?"

Lu Zheng said honestly: "Eggs are laid by chickens, and chickens hatch with eggs, and if there are no chickens, there will be no eggs, and if there are no eggs, there will be no chickens. ”

Le Zhongping laughed out loud when he heard this, and said: "Stupid boy, of course you can't think clearly, this is your own fool! You see chickens laying eggs and eggs hatching chickens, so let me ask you, have you seen the eggs that hatched the first chicken? Have you seen the first chicken that laid eggs?"

Lu Zheng was a little stunned when he heard this, he didn't understand what Mr. Le meant, and said, "Of course not, it had to be a long time ago, how could I see ......?"

Le Zhongping said again: "Isn't this right, why do you just talk nonsense about things that you haven't seen? Let me ask you again, who told you that the first chicken was hatched from an egg, and the first egg was laid by a chicken? If there is an egg first, can the egg that hatched the first chicken be called an egg?"

Xin'er's eyes widened when she heard this, Uncle Le's statement was too different from what his father said, and he couldn't help but be curious: "The eggs laid by chickens are called eggs, not eggs laid by chickens, it seems that they can't be called eggs, so what should they be called?"

For a while, Xin'er and Lu Zheng both felt that their brains seemed to have become a mess, and they couldn't think of anything clearly. Mr. Le was willing to let go of such a funny opportunity, and immediately pointed to the two people who were a little confused: "You can't call it an egg, of course it's a stupid egg, and it's a pair, hahaha." ”

That's the end of the day, because then the teacher Li Yi interrupted the conversation and took Lu Zheng and Xin'er to class. In the end, Mr. Le didn't clearly answer whether there was a chicken or an egg first, but it seemed that the meaning of his words had already been answered. Anyway, after that day, Lu Zheng and Xin'er continued to think about it for a long time.

Mr. Le's words inspired them that if they only look at the cycle of chickens laying eggs and eggs and chickens, they can't find a beginning, just like a circle that has been drawn, and they can no longer find the beginning and the end. If you want to find a real beginning, you should look for it before everything is created. In other words, it is necessary to find out who made the egg hatch the chicken, or who made the chicken lay the egg, and who drew the circle. (To be continued......)